Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

Cast: Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario(Teresa), Thomas Brodie-Sangster(Newt), Ki Hong Lee(Minho), Jacob Lofland(Aris), Alexander Flores(Winston), Rosa Salazar(Brenda), Giancarlo Esposito(Jorge), Barry Pepper(Vince), Lili Taylor(Mary), Aidan Gillen(Janson) and Patricia Clarkson(Ava)
Director: Wes Ball
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, Horror



This film lives upto its expectations. Certainly even better than its first part!




You may look forward to:

• The credit for this movie goes primarily to its director Wes Ball. He impresses with multiple characters, shoots with amazing cinematography while startling you time to time with spooky zombies and thrilling action. The best part of the movie is its last scene, which gives a whole new turn for its next flick to its series!
• Dylan O'Brien is a star in the making. Very suggestively as the film ends, he is the one going to be leading the troop, and fight back as resistance to the threatening and dominating organization. He works as a team in this film, and proves himself ably
• Guys from the original surviving team viz, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Ki Hong Lee and Alexander Flores do a good job, with Alexander ending his journey with this film. A new addition is Jacob Lofland, another survivor from another team, who is a silent spectator and a rather intelligent one
• Rosa Salazar and Giancarlo Esposito gives a push to the dying hopes of the surviving team, they are good supports. So are Barry Pepper and Lili Taylor, though Lili has a rather short role, but can expect to see the rest of them in the next of its series
• The main antagonists of the film Aidan Gillen and Patricia Clarkson, are more of chasers, involving many hit and run scenes. They do their job good within their limitations

What you can sleep over:

Kaya Scodelario is the predictable element in the film. She does not really come out as a surprise, which was otherwise intended to.





The dampeners you should be aware of:

Second half of the movie feels lengthy and dragging directionless for sometime. You have already seen plenty of action, what dampens a bit is continued action without a direction where the story is heading to. There is a continuous array of getting hope alive and then killing that hope. Though the last scene makes up for it, clearly showing the intention behind dragging, by displaying the despair of the people trying to shift from one location to another that of which is a never ending torture leading to no permanent solution, and then laying a foundation for a true uprising






My Rating: 3.5/5

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